Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wind Castro up in a disastrous (for him) shooting war with the U.S. Aware of this, Cuban officials, though they arrested Cadon, made no effort to keep the DC-8 when it landed in Havana. They offered the passengers daiquiris, sandwiches, and music by a strolling trio before they flew back to Miami. Moreover, Castro offered to trade an Eastern Air Lines Electra, skyjacked earlier (TIME. Aug. 4), for a Cuban patrol boat sailed to the U.S. by Cuban defectors. At week's end the U.S. agreed...
Private Reasons. The disagreement came over timing. Rusk flew into Paris hoping to persuade his partners that there should be immediate contact with Russia to set a date and fix an agenda for a Berlin conference. This, he argued, would regain the initiative for the West. The French and West Germans were unwilling, and each has a private reason. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is in the midst of an election campaign and in particular wants no discussion of possible bargaining concessions or muddying up the electioneering before election day, on Sept...
While Titov ate and slept, whirling on an ellipse that ranged from 111 miles to 158 miles above the earth, Premier Khrushchev promoted the orbiting cosmonaut from captain to major, also promoted him from candidate to full Communist Party member. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin cut short a trip to Canada, flew back to Moscow to be on hand to greet Titov. Western scientists and technicians went about the business of tracking Titov's progress with understandable lack of enthusiasm. "It makes me sick to my stomach," growled one U.S. Air Force officer...
...busy little lie between them flew: "If this is not perfection," Love would...
...youngest among them 50 years old, performed precision calisthenics to the strains of Now Is the Hour. A shorts-clad German woman contingent got a big hand for an exhibition of ball throwing, even though they several times knocked the medicine ball into the orchestra seats. Young Englishmen flew nimbly on and off the gymnastic horses; 17 lovely young women from the Unifed Arab Republic banged sticks in unison; a troupe of muscle-flexing Danish maids rolled about the stage so sensuously that some of the crowd, reminded of other occasions, were moved to encouraging shouts of "Take...